At Cheltenham instead of on Twitter? Never fear, here's the best of what we noticed from the world of health last week.
Lots of jokes about George Osborne sugaring the pill in the budget, but will it leave a sour taste for health?
- David Buck takes a useful look about what the budget might mean for health.
- More devolution deals were announced in the budget. Hannah Butcher looks at the implications for health.
- Kids make the case to ‘Mr Neil’ for intervention on public health.
- An interesting blog on the impact of the OBR on the budget process from the Institute for Government.
- The Budget in eight graphs.
Meanwhile…
- Cuts are coming to NHS provision in Worcestershire.
- Weird geographies are not the exclusive domain of the NHS.
- Some odds on familiar names to be first East Anglian mayor.
- You can find the signs of evolution on your own body.
- More people than ever are employed in health and care, but there are big variations by country.
From America:
- How the internet – and the echo chamber it creates – is disrupting politics.
- The foods that fuelled genius.
- A transplant surgeon’s reflections on treating his own family.
And finally…
- A rather coarse way to dismiss legislation from Governor Schwarzenegger, via the medium of an acrostic poem.